Once again ceremonies at the Sochi Winter Olympics will be nearly a half day away from television viewers in the United States. Closing ceremonies begin at 11 a.m. Eastern, but NBC will hold off viewing the final party of the Sochi games until 8:30 p.m.

That will put a wrap on 1,539 hours of programming between NBC (185 hours), NBCSN (230), MSNBC (45), USA Network (43), CNBC (36) and NBCOlympics.com (1,000 hours online). The total hours of televised programming at Sochi is more than the past two Winter Olympics combined.

The final three groups of medals awarded in the following events:

Men's cross-country skiing, 50km

Men's 4-man bobsled

Men's hockey

BEST U.S. HOPES FOR MEDAL

USA-1, four-man bobsled

Driver Steven Holcomb had a bronze in the two-man and hopes to do at least the same here.

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